Alejandro Aravena: The Forces in Architecture

Work by leading Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, on display in his first solo exhibit in Japan. Writes Aravena:

"In a project’s equation, there are some terms that are unavoidable. Like gravity or nature. . . But even if counterintuitive, there are other forces in architecture that are much stronger and it is better to agree with them. One of those forces is the strength of daily customs and everyday life – the search for the shortest distance across a field that a shortcut offers, the search for a nice morning light for a bedroom or the possibility to darken it at night, the proliferation of curtains that try to reduce undesired glare in curtain-wall office spaces that may be too modern for eyes that haven’t changed in millenniums – are traces of the force of customs . . . This exhibition documents these forces in play." (from exhibit website)